{"id":191176,"date":"2009-09-15T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/15\/house-votes-resolution-of-disapproval-rep-joe-wilson\/"},"modified":"2009-09-15T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T23:17:00","slug":"house-votes-resolution-of-disapproval-rep-joe-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/15\/house-votes-resolution-of-disapproval-rep-joe-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"House Votes Resolution of Disapproval Rep. Joe Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>7 Republicans crossed lines to vote for it, 12 Dems crossed party lines to vote against it, and 5 Dems abstained.<\/p>\n<p>I am of two minds about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2009\/09\/15\/us\/politics\/AP-US-House-RollCall-Heckling.html\">the vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What he did was clearly a violation of the rules of courtesy for the House of Representatives, and I understand why they felt the need to make sure that there were consequences.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, I think that Congressional courtesy is overrated, and going with British style heckling, and a couple of good fist fights on the floor, might shake up that staid institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 Republicans crossed lines to vote for it, 12 Dems crossed party lines to vote against it, and 5 Dems abstained. I am of two minds about the vote. What he did was clearly a violation of the rules of courtesy for the House of Representatives, and I understand why they felt the need to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}